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I say "yes", this
is obviously a form of hate literature.
But what is a tax-exempt educational corporation doing this for?
Is this what Janet Vetters
intended?
Janet Vetters' Will does
not specify that she wanted "polar hate literature" to be mailed to
"...Black Studies and history departments" as Gibbons has done.
Gibbon's
vitriolic attacks of Peary/Henson clearly fall outside of her intentions for
her charitable trust.
According to the Certificate Of Incorporation, under Section 402 of
the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law, their purpose is:
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"To gain recognition
for the scientific and geographic accomplishments of the
American physician and explorer, Dr. Frederick Albert Cook (1865
- 1940); ...to establish monuments, markers or other memorial
and create and dedicate parks or resting areas in his honor; to
disseminate the facts regarding his life and explorations; to
more fully ascertain his accomplishments and philosophy in the
hopes that others will learn of them and perhaps emulate them;
to publish information regarding all of the foregoing." |
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A charitable trust "hate" charter?
The Cook Society charter never intended the production, at trust fund
expense, of 14 page pamphlets defaming an African American and then
mailing copies to Black Studies programs. Their literature,
typically, consists of endless insults at Robert E. Peary, the man
who discovered the North Pole.
In fact Gibbons seems obsessed with
refuting the well established
scientific
fact that Peary & Henson reached the Pole. His attacks actually mirror
the hate campaign
Dr. Cook launched in 1911 with his nasty book, My Attainment
of The Pole. If Gibbons wants to revert to these negative tactics,
he should do that with his personal time. This is not appropriate for a
charitable trust with tax-exempt status. Perhaps he should pay for this material
with his own funds and mail it at his own expense to the list of "...Black Studies
and history departments."
The Director is paid to produced
anti-Peary & Henson literature?
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1995
Russell Gibbons salary |
Russell Gibbons,
January |
Consultant |
$1,400.00 |
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Russell Gibbons, February |
Consultant |
$1,400.00 |
Russell Gibbons,
March |
Consultant |
$1,400.00 |
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etc. |
etc. |
etc. |
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Russell was
being paid $1,400.00/month back in 1995, a total of $16,800/year. |
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IRS stipulations regarding officers
Officers of a tax-exempt charitable trust are not allowed to benefit. Federal income tax code
states in section 501 (c)
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corporation shall inure to the benefit of any member,
trustee, director, officer of the corporation,...(except
that reasonable compensation...for services rendered...)..." |
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IRS prohibits propaganda
I view Gibbons' "Polar Priorities"
literature as anti-Peary and anti-Henson propaganda. If he is using the Cook Society
Director position and their funds to wage his personal hate campaign
against Dr. Cooks leading (but long dead) critics, this may be a
violation of the IRS provisions. Does Russell Gibbons have any other
income? Or is he permanently on the payroll as an employee to
produce this anti-Peary/Henson propaganda? In fact, the US Government does
not allow non-profits to be propaganda organizations.
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"...No substantial part of the
activities of the corporation shall be carrying on
propaganda,..."
prop·a·gan·da
n.
1) The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of
information reflecting the views and interests of those
advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2) Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a
doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda. |
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Buying history - the "Encyclopedia
Project"
The Cook Society spent thousands of dollars on this effort.
Apparently they put the fraudulent explorer back into the history
books with biographical references graduate students were paid to produce.
Is this is the wholesale purchasing of American history by a
tax-free trust?
1) 1991: ...graduate student...6 month project on biographical data search
and contacts for new material to all standard books of reference,
encyclopedias, etc. in North America and Europe. $2,500.00
2) 1991: Take research findings and circulate publications with new
biographical and background data, photos, maps, comments from
authorities, etc. $1,000.00 |
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History of Cook Society
spending |
| 1994 |
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| Trial transcripts? You mean the
federal mail fraud trial of Fred Cook back in the 1920s? |
Trial Transcript |
$3,912.58 |
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Clerical |
$3,600.00 |
| That's a lot of phone calls. |
Telephone |
$3,367.49 |
| Does that include food and beverages? |
Meeting exp. |
$6,380.00 |
| Is that Russell Gibbons? |
Consultant |
$14,741.11 |
| Is this the Ted Heckathorn camping
trip in Alaska? |
Mt. McKinley |
$30,882.96 |
| Who got this money? What did they
research? |
Research |
$24,033.98 |
| This is the same publication that
they used to defame Henson (vol.20) |
Polar Priorities |
$8,965.32 |
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Cook Society expenses |
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$115,997.10 |
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| 1993 |
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| They helped Robert Bryce
with his anti-Peary book. Did he also benefit, for his book, by the thousands
of dollars the Cook Society spent on trial transcripts related to
the Texas oil lease mail fraud and federal indictments? Did he
receive any of the tens of thousands of dollars listed as
"Research", or "Consultant"? |
Typing for Bryce |
$80.50 |
| Typing for Bryce |
$84.55 |
| Texas oil research
(budgeted) |
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$3,000.00 |
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| 1991 |
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Encyclopedia
project
1) ...graduate student...6 month project on biographical data search
and contacts for new material to all standard books of reference,
encyclopedias, etc. in North America and Europe |
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$2,500.00 |
| 2) Take research
findings and circulate publications with new biographical and
background data, photos, maps, comments from authorities, etc. |
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$1,000.00 |
| Texas oil research
(proposed budget) |
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$15,000.00 |
| Wages and benefits |
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$30,000.00 |
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Cook Society budget |
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$80,025.00 |
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Cook Society
anti-Henson hate literature? Paid for by a tax-exempt trust fund? |
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Do
Americans know this is how their tax-exempt
"charitable trust"
dollars are being used? Gibbons wants to overturn
scientific proof
that Americans Peary & Henson reached the North Pole in 1909.
Failing to accomplish that, is he now reduced to this? |
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| Gibbons' anti-Peary/Henson platform |
| "there was nothing remarkable
about Henson...a vainglorious braggart....dishonesty ... false
statements, distortions or outright fabrications...a
dupe...Peary's rage...failures of the 1906 and 1909
expeditions...Peary used Henson...Henson showed a lack of
moral courage and honesty regarding Peary's hoaxes...the
damning sequel of Peary's deliberate abandonment of his dark
companion..." |
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Gibbons' anti-Peary and Henson
literature summary:
• Portrays a hateful relationship
between Peary and Henson
• Affirms Henson was only a "manservant"
• Declares Peary a fraud, his North Pole trip was faked
• Henson was a co-conspirator in Peary's multiple geographic hoaxes
• Quotes a known bigot "there was nothing remarkable about Henson"
(Below) Cook Society
pamphlet, 14 pages long, in which they insult Peary, insult Henson and
generally try to discredit these two American polar heroes. I call it
thinly disguised racism and "hate literature".
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Cook Society
anti-Henson hate literature? Paid for by a tax-exempt trust fund? |
Cookites have always
hated Peary and now seem to hate Henson as well. Are they an equal
opportunity hate organization? While this magazine of theirs
pretends to be an expose on how Peary abused Henson it strikes me as
the Cook Society's way of undermining Peary further at the expense of
Henson.
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Cook Society
anti-Henson hate literature? Paid for by a tax-exempt trust fund? |
The Cook Society is calling Henson a liar. They want to destroy his elevated status as an
African American hero.
Cook Society
anti-Henson hate literature? Paid for by a tax-exempt trust fund? |
"... Matthew
Henson endured as Peary's "manservant," later to be discarded by the
man who took all the "glory and honor."...
by Russell W. Gibbons
That he achieved status was largely despite the
"manservant" relationship with his employer of 23 years, Robert Edwin Peary. It may
be too simple to categorize Peary as a racist; ...Peary used Henson
and considered him "an extension of the will in my five fingers."
...Peary's rageknew no bounds following Henson's abortive lecture
series, in which he suggested that "the old man" had been but sledge
baggage, with Henson breaking the trail and, in effect, becoming the
first to arrive at what would later be claimed as the North
Pole....Henson and Peary were inextricably linked...in the inevitable
failures of the 1906 and 1909 expeditions.Henson was dependent upon
Peary for virtually all of the working years of his life and
the
damning sequel of Peary's deliberate abandonment of his "dark
companion"
is something which the Henson revisionists refuse to
accept. ... Jo Peary called him
a "vainglorious braggart"
and with the
other inner circle bitterly resented his abortive lecture tours and
the publication of his book, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. ...
Peary's daughter Marie, as late as 1962, wrote a Henson biographer
that
"there was nothing remarkable about Henson."
Excerpt used without permission from
Russell Gibbons' Polar Penis, vol. 20, 2000. |
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